Tag: Great Society

The Story: The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is now displaying the consequences of its new Biden-administration leadership. On Friday, February 12,  the CMMS...

NEW YORK (AP) — Charles Krauthammer, the Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist and pundit who helped shape and occasionally dissented from the conservative movement as he evolved from "Great Society" Democrat to Iraq War cheerleader to denouncer of Donald Trump, has died at age 68. His death Thursday was announced by his longtime employers The Washington Post and Fox News. "I leave this life with no regrets," Krauthammer wrote in the Post, where his column had run since 1984. I am sad to leave, but I leave with the knowledge that I lived the life that I intended." He was most associated with Brit Hume's nightly newscast and stayed with it when Bret Baier took over in 2009. Krauthammer is credited with coining the term "The Reagan Doctrine" for President Reagan's policy of aiding anti-Communist movements worldwide. He was a leading advocate for the Iraq War and a prominent critic of President Barack Obama, whom he praised for his "first-class intellect and first-class temperament" and denounced for having a "highly suspect" character. He was attacked for his politics, and for his predictions. He was so confident of quick success in Iraq he initially labeled the 2003 invasion "The Three Week War" and defended the conflict for years. But he prided himself on his rejection of orthodoxy and took on Republicans, too, observing during a Fox special in 2013 that "If you're going to leave the medical profession because you think you have something to say, you betray your whole life if you don't say what you think and if you don't say it honestly and bluntly."